Kabelo Motaphi Kekana, a first-year law student at the University of the Witwatersrand, is demonstrating that disability is no barrier to success. Wits University News As South Africa’s top-performing matric student with special education needs last year, he reflects on his achievements: “At first, I didn’t expect it, but my friends and family believed in […]
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People with disabilities still experience barriers to the realisation of their rights. A new view on disability is required. By Lem Chetty/Image: Chante Schatz The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, states that: “Everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law. Equality includes
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13 years since South Africa signed the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has enough been done especially in terms of access to education for people with disabilities? Duncan Yates, the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU), says that although some progress has been made in addressing
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Duncan Yates is the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU) where he has been working in the field of disability support over the past 10 years. He has a Masters in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg and is also a Practicing Counselling Psychologist. As a person with a
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